quarrelsome

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Given to quarreling; contentious. See Synonyms at argumentative, belligerent.

adj. Marked by quarreling.

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adj. Argumentative; belligerent; contentious; given to quarreling.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Apt to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; inclined to petty fighting; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible”; choleric; petulant; also, proceeding from or characteristic of such a disposition.

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Examples

Those, however, who defend the common good and withstand the seditious party are not themselves seditious, even as neither is a man to be called quarrelsome because he defends himself, as stated above.7

Those, however, who defend the common good, and withstand the seditious party, are not themselves seditious, even as neither is a man to be called quarrelsome because he defends himself, as stated above (Q. 41, A. 1).

So he steered him with able hand through the angry sea until, just as they reached the table of the Seven, a dangerous stoppage occurred, as a group of peasants came up who wanted to call the quarrelsome fellow to account and attack him from both sides.

Page 17: Pub and club patrons deemed "quarrelsome" will be banned from licensed premises for up to a year and have their personal details, including photographs, published online under proposed changes to the law.

” Perhaps because I come from the kind of quarrelsome family that is today called ‘dysfunctional,’ I have a natural aptitude for mind games – for sowing confusion, discord and misjudgment – and mind games are ninety percent of this business.